Re: Literature research on the Internet"

student wrote:
>
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> We are students at the Munich School of Management - Institute for
> Information Systems and New Media (WIM, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess).

Make the world a better place. Commit mass suicide. Thank you.

> We are
> conducting a scientific study

Impressive! What are the alternatives, a philosophic or an artistic
study? Bull*** on rye with a pickle, hold the fries?

> on the topic "Literature research on
> the Internet". During our work we have assessed that you have
> specific expertise and knowledge which would help us to achieve
> valuable scientific results.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ. At least tailor your spew to readers in a
newsgroup.

> We would like to ask you to spend 10
> minutes on this online survey. Your cooperation is essential for our
> successful completion of this research. Of course, your participation
> is voluntary.

You guys aren't nearly the world-beaters you were in 1941.

> We guarantee that your data will be treated anonymously.

Every time I fart Windows makes 59 files documenting it. NOTHING is
anonymous (as a Tennessee State senator has recently learned).

> There are no "right" or "wrong" answers. Your own attitude is
> the subject of our interest. Please mark the choice that most
> accurately represents your opinion.
>
> Please click on the link below and fill out the questionnaire before
> June 6. Please answer the questions honestly and conscientiously in
> order to help us obtain the most valid results.
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Everything and its opposite in the social sciences is true. Google
works because Google doesn't give a *** what others think - or if
they think at all. Google is a collection of the most Severely and
Profoundly Gifted on this planet. The only way to accurately predict
the future is to create it yourself.

http://www.cnn.com/
near-bottom of page, right corner

That is an open poll. When one displays the wrong trend it is rapidly
replaced with a new poll. If you do not validate the desires of your
funding agency you wlll be forgotten to death.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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